On: How MooTools was built

[cmrdporcupine]

"Sebastian: My dad used to code C++ games for the Commodore 64,"

Huh?

[sebmarkbage → cmrdporcupine]

(I'm "Sebastian".) It meant to read C. It definitely wasn't C++. However, now I'm curious if I'm confusing it with the later Amiga games. I'll need to look into this. I was 8 years old at the time. :) Note that this was for hobby projects many years after the original launch of those products - not mainstream dev.

[cromwellian → sebmarkbage]

C/C++ was much more common on the Amiga, although even C++ was rare until later in the Amiga's lifecycle.

[cmrdporcupine → sebmarkbage]

Yeah I kinda wondered if the article author messed something up. :-)

Probably your dad was doing C on the Amiga. C on the C64 wasn't really a thing. Nor was C++ on the Amiga, really.

[1ris → cmrdporcupine]

I'm interested aswell. I'm only aware of the "Profi-C" c compiler for the c64. Maybe they are lost in ways google can't find these compilers?

[mkesper → 1ris]

Nowadays cc65 exists: https://cc65.github.io/doc/c64.html

[ksherlock → cmrdporcupine]

That was before rust, when people still used c++ to program in assembly or basic.

[cromwellian → ksherlock]

Nice sarcasm. No one used C++ to program the C64. Even C compilers were rare.

Most C64 code was written in 6502 Assembly directly, some was written in Basic or Blitz basic.